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My Hearing Loss Story

My experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it affects my life.

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View of the aeroplane wing and clouds at sunset out of an aeroplane window. Image by Nikhil Kurian from Pixabay
March 13, 2024 hearing loss

In My Cocoon: Flying With Hearing Loss

Image by Nikhil Kurian from Pixabay “You would’ve thought they’d have learned the first time, wouldn’t you?!” commented the stranger

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Young happy women talking and laughing while drinking coffee together in coffee shop.
July 5, 2021 hearing loss

How My Hearing Loss Has Made Me a Better Listener

Approaching the coffee shop my friend asks me, “Where do you want to sit?” She is supportive of my communication

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November 16, 2020 Published Articles / Single-Sided Deafness

How to Enjoy the Festive Period with Hearing Loss

Image by vivienviv0 from Pixabay  ‘First posted on Inclusive Communication Services and reposted here with permission.’ The holiday season is a time to

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June 18, 2020 Single-Sided Deafness

Communicating Through the Face Mask Barrier

Unfortunately, through the two layers of face-coverings, her speech reached my ear as a series of unintelligible scrambled tones and fragments of muffled words.

May 9, 2020 hearing loss

Behind the Face Mask 

Image by Gabriele Lässer from Pixabay The Spanish government has started to relax lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. In

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October 23, 2019 Hearing Link / Published Articles / Single-Sided Deafness

The Loneliness of a Busy Restaurant

What I have realised is that I appreciate the hearing I have left. And, I pay extra attention to my other senses, as I now rely more on these to interact with the world.

December 11, 2018 Single-Sided Deafness

Small Talk with a Stylist

During the summer, while spending some time in England, I had a really great experience at a hair salon. Although

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August 21, 2018 Single-Sided Deafness

“You Really Need to Learn How to Lip Read.”

I walked into a busy classroom and the teacher motioned for me to go over to where they were sitting.

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Welcome to my blog!

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I’m Carly Sygrove, and this is the story of my experience of sudden sensorineural hearing loss and how it has affected my life.

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  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 9 – Activation Day
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 8 – Choosing an Audio Processor
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 18 – One Year Post-Implantation
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 3 - Reasons Not to Get a Cochlear Implant
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 7 – Surgery Recovery
  • Living with Single-Sided Deafness
  • One Year On... My Thoughts on My Sudden Hearing Loss
  • Could Botox Help My Vestibular Migraines?—Part 3: The Verdict
  • My Cochlear Implant Story: Part 17 – The Day I Met Another Rondo
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